• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he believes the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada should be built.
• Salazar said at an energy conference in Houston Wednesday that the pipeline could be built safely, as long as conditions are imposed. Those conditions would require the pipeline operator to meet tough environmental standards and even pay for conservation programs along the pipeline route.
• Salazar told The Associated Press that the pipeline could be a "win-win" project that benefits U.S. energy security while boosting conservation efforts in Montana, South Dakota and other affected states.
• Salazar's comments follow a State Department report last week that raised no major environmental objections to the $7 billion pipeline. The pipeline would carry oil from western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities in Sioux Falls say three policemen have been treated for injuries they sustained when trying to arrest a man following the report of a suspected domestic dispute.
• Police on Wednesday said the officers were transported to a hospital.
• Police say 31-year-old Rocky T. Traversie Jr. allegedly hit two relatives with a brick and threatened to not let them leave a northern Sioux Falls home. Authorities say three more people where at the home during the incident. Police say a teenager escaped through a window and called police.
• Eighteen police officers responded to the scene.
• Police say the Sioux Falls man has been arrested on three counts of aggravated assault on law enforcement, five counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault domestic.
• Traversie's attorney information couldn't be found.
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